Urabe Shyouhei wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> RHEL *5* is still using 1.8.5? In that case, dropping support for
>> 1.8.5 is a *huge* problem. RHEL
>
> Why on earth?
>
> We are not cat's-paw of RedHat, nor Sun, nor Microsoft; we are
> individual from any OS vendors. It is quite natural for them to have
> different maintenance plan than ours. Equally natural for us to have
> different plans than theirs.
Bravo.
The Ruby core developers are hardly going to get any work done if they
are supporting more than 2 or 3 releases at a time. Let the distributors
keep up with the developers, rather than drag them down. As long as
there is a current stable release, everyone who wants a stable ruby
should move their code to it (how hard can it be to move from 1.8.5. to
1.8.6, especially since 1.8.5 was a bit problematic itself, IIRC).
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